Customer Reviews
Full of passion, youth and poetic love for the sky - By: D. Ross, 30 Sep 2008 
This is possibly the best aircraft related war memoir I have ever read. Cecil Lewis is a wordsmith in his own right, he lived to be 98 & became a successful BBC broadcaster. He wrote this book later on in life, but not from an adult perspective only just how he fell at the time as a 17 year old youth joining the Royal Flying Corps. It's full of love for flying, full of passion & knowledge of the machines, full of feelings that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster & make you laugh & cry as you read through this magnificent masterpiece of a memoir.
1st class book - By: , 08 May 2004 This book amazed me with indepth describtion of the war & shocking images. Written by the magnificent Cecil Lewis !! Who many of you will have heard of. The book is not short of good quality !!! Cecil Lewis , the first air ace of World War one, is a great author & this book encourages me to want to read more & more of his work. But I think he only has the 1 book!!!
If you are interested & amazed by the war then you will love this book but if you find war boring then think again !!!Thuis book makes you want to read on even if you are not completely into the world war 1. It also teaches the reader a lot about the war, so teachers or just keen people must read this book !!! Give it to children to read beacause though it will be a challlenge it will teach them a lot about life & the war !!!!
I would defiantly reccommend this book !!!
Perhaps the best First World War Fighter pilot memoir - By: dbowden@btinternet.com, 14 Apr 2001 Cecil Lewis is above alll gifted writer. He gives the reader a rare insight into the life of a young man during the first world war & shortly afterwards.
A "bit of a Poet" he tells us of his experience as he trains to be a pilot & then during active duty.
This memoir lets us see through his eyes what live was like. Perhaps we see it better for he has a keen eye for detail & is both sensitive & perceptive.
The flying & combat scenes are perhaps the best ever written.
